How to sign: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root";
Similiar / Same: origin, root, rootage, beginning
Categories: point
Within this category: birthplace, derivation, fountainhead, headwaters, home, jumping-off place, point source, spring, trail head, wellhead